Curtain or covering for carriages



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CURTAIN 0R COVERING FOR GARRIAGES. No. 280,309. Patented June 26, 1883.

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EDWARD HARRAL, OF FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT.

CURTAIN OR COVERING FOR CARRIAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,309, dated June 26, 1883.

' Application filed June 4, 1883. (No model.)

useful Improvements in Curtains and Cover-- ings for Carriages; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains.

to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements in the manufacture of curtains and coverings for carriages, and has for its object to provide a device of this description which shall be perfectly water-proof, while at the same time its manufacture shall be simple and economic and the action of the elements not affect the same; and with these ends in view my invention consists in acoverin'g orcurtain having an inner facing of wool, on a cotton back with 'a coating of rubber on the latter, as will be fully hereinafter explained in detail, and then specifically designated by the claim.

I11 order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may more fully understand its construction and adaptation, I will proceed to describe the same in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, which shows the arrangement of the several com ponent parts of my improvement in a sectional view.

construction of my improved curtain or co-vering is that when the rubber is appliedto the cotton back it adapts itself to the minute irregularities of said back, so that in rolling up or folding the curtain there is no danger of wrinkling or cracking, because of the uniform application and adaptation of the rubber. This construction also renders the curtain free from the bulkiness and stiffness common to most curtains and coverings now in use.

Prior to my invention leather has been used, and various materials have been combined by stitching, pasting, &c., to accomplish the same purpose; but the action of the sun and rain on all of these is very injurious, as they invariably crack or rot. Also, the curtains now in use, especially those composed ofleather or having a leather back, become wrinkled or creased by continued rolling or folding up, owing to their slight degree offlexibility; but I am enabled to produce a curtain exceedingly durable and flexible, while at the same time the great facility with which I, can manufacture the same renders it very economical.

Havingthus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a curtain or covering for carriages and the like, having a wool facing on a cotton back and a coating of rubber over the latter, substantially as set forth and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD \V. HARRAL.

Witnesses:

F. W. SMITH, Jr., A. M. WOOSTER. 

